tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post3767002757996649572..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: When detective work becomes yard workGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-33686550415622436922010-05-30T08:23:19.769-05:002010-05-30T08:23:19.769-05:00This DID happen to a woman in Austin win the last ...This DID happen to a woman in Austin win the last couple of years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78127056845083296432010-05-29T10:25:41.321-05:002010-05-29T10:25:41.321-05:00Gee, can you send these idiots up to Northern Cali...Gee, can you send these idiots up to Northern California? We have an obnoxious (yet somewhat pretty) weed, locally called Marlahan mustard - it grows EVERYWHERE! We wouldn't mind some help in getting rid of it.Lori Wilsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23063172005590484292010-05-29T09:17:05.651-05:002010-05-29T09:17:05.651-05:00What a bunch of dipsh*ts. Doran is correct, I shud...What a bunch of dipsh*ts. Doran is correct, I shudder to imagine the scene of horror and mega ineptitude had that little twit erroneously peached on some old lady's herb garden. And yet we trust these fools to run around with guns, tasers, and the authority to incarcerate us. What's next? Lightning swat raids on my wife's geraniums? Putting SCRAM tethers on ferns who might violate probation? Seriously, what a pack of idiots.R. Shacklefordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-48017530680294762082010-05-29T07:09:22.597-05:002010-05-29T07:09:22.597-05:00"My experiment would be to plant a boatload o..."My experiment would be to plant a boatload of these seeds all around my upperclass residential neighborhood and then send in an anonymous tip. The police and swat team bust down doors, I'm arrested, the plants are all pulled up, and then I go to jail. What now?"<br /><br />Go to jail 10:12 for making a false report.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-13907069196028638942010-05-28T22:12:34.722-05:002010-05-28T22:12:34.722-05:00This post is fascinating to me because I've re...This post is fascinating to me because I've recently thought about this when it comes to illegal poppy plants. See, only one species is statutorily prohibited: Papaver Somniferum. However, there are about 20 other species that all look identical in shape, and produce the same chemicals (opium alkaloids) that the prohibited species produces, except in lower quantities. <br /><br />Further, gardening clubs and flower enthusiasts love the different types of flowers that the poppy produces, AND the seeds are sold in gardening stores, flower shops, and at the grocery store in the spice aisle. But if ONE of those seeds produces the species that is prohibited (and the poppy seeds you buy in the spice section of the grocery store almost certainly will be the somniferum type), you could be in a ton of trouble.<br /><br />My experiment would be to plant a boatload of these seeds all around my upperclass residential neighborhood and then send in an anonymous tip. The police and swat team bust down doors, I'm arrested, the plants are all pulled up, and then I go to jail. What now?<br /><br />Note: there is only one case in the nation that I'm aware of where someone was actually busted for growing opium plants. None where there was a false-positive (but legal variety) poppy plant.<br /><br />One more thing: I just planted a boatload of poppy plants in my FRONT yard. All of them are of the legal variety though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78868925171809147582010-05-28T20:25:05.862-05:002010-05-28T20:25:05.862-05:00I'm with doran: I don't mind these fools w...I'm with doran: I don't mind these fools wasting time digging up weeds..except that they are armed with the police power and have the courthouse backing them up. Someone could easily been have been hurt or killed over their ignorance.<br /> Retraining at the least, though from experience, I would expect nothing to be done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29462984296441481542010-05-28T19:54:41.560-05:002010-05-28T19:54:41.560-05:00Mercy! I laughed so hard my sides hurt!
These Cr...Mercy! I laughed so hard my sides hurt!<br /><br />These Crack Operative Professional Sleuths aka COPS must have been trained by TDCJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86166443267303820582010-05-28T15:30:22.565-05:002010-05-28T15:30:22.565-05:00I fear for my profession!I fear for my profession!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-75059665986872281472010-05-28T15:24:38.264-05:002010-05-28T15:24:38.264-05:00The only thing keeping this story from being a tot...The only thing keeping this story from being a total HOOT is the realization of what could have happened if these dumb-ass cops had found the horsemint growing in some private person's back yard, rather than in a park.<br /><br />These guys would have found an equally dumb-ass JP who would probably peed his or her pants in excitement at issuing a search and arrest warrant. Then they would have busted down doors, terrorized some totally bewildered citizen. And maybe even shot someone. Shit! People can get killed when cops make this kind of mistake.<br /><br />From where did Corpus hire these guys? Cops'R Us?<br /><br />Horsemint is ubiquitous in the sandy lands east of Austin. There are probably a couple of million plants per acre in most pastures this year.<br /><br />But even more likely to get a gardner busted are okra, Althea [Rose of Sharon], and Kenaf. The latter, which is member of the same family as the first two, is an almost dead ringer for maryjane.<br /><br />By the way, the horsemint pictured is not the same as that growing in Bastrop, Lee and other counties to the east. The stuff around here looks even less like marijuana than that pictured.dorannoreply@blogger.com